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Mind the (Gender Pay) Gap Report
16 Oct 2017 AR
Panel Members: Chair – Cllr. Julie Iles, CWO National Chairman; Gillian Keegan, MP for Chichester; Dame Helena Morrissey DBE, Head of Personal Investing at Legal and General and Founder of the 30% Club; Ellen Broome, Chief Executive of the Family and Childcare Trust; and Sarah Jackson, Chief Executive of Working Families.
In her introduction to the issue of the gender pay gap the Chairman said that 5 out of 6 full time nursery or primary teachers are women who earn less. Female medics earn 29% less than men, but that Receptionists are one of the only jobs where women earn more than men.
She went on to say that we ought to be concerned at what happened at the Ballot Box at the last election. Analysis shows that the biggest swing away from the Conservatives by 22% was from women in their 30s; the swing away from the Conservatives in the full-time working women group was by 16%. In general, women earn less, own less and are responsible for the provision of care.
She remarked that in Jeremy Corbyn's Conference speech as leader of Labour, the party which assumes the mantel of women's equality, incredibly there was no mention of any childcare policy.
Ellen Broome spoke first. She said that at the moment the pay gap stands at 18% and at the current rate would not be eradicated for 62 years. This year, the gender pay gap in the UK means that women effectively stop earning on November 10th, relative to men's year-round wages. This is the penalty of motherhood. There is a gap of 10% before children which is then incremental after children. By the time the first child is 10, the difference in earnings is significantly lower.
All income brackets are affected and there needs to be a change in working patterns to fit around childcare. Ellen believes that childcare is a resource which is as vital as rails, roads and electricity. To many parents affordable, flexible childcare remains a pipedream as it is too expensive and there simply aren't enough places. It is also not available for those, such as shift workers, who work outside the typical working day.
With childcare costs as high as they are, it just doesn't pay for women to work. Families can take home less than £2 per hour after childcare costs, and this impacts NI and pension contributions in the long-term.
Ellen is calling for three changes:
1) Every parent has to be better off to work after paying out for childcare costs
2) More support for training and upskilling after maternity breaks
3) There is a gap between parental leave and early years which needs to be offset.
The corollary of women working more is sharing more care and fathers want to be involved.
Sarah Jackson explained that her charity, Working Families, has been around for forty years. It provides free legal and practical advice to parents so that they can navigate the system. Every day she hears from women about issues they experience in the workplace. For decades women have been paying a high price in their careers for having children. There is the astronomical cost of childcare offset against women's wages rather than being seen as a general household cost. For the parents of disabled children the costs can even be three times higher.
Looking at the Millennial Parents (those under 35), those in the ordinary income bracket, childcare arrangements are starting to affect parents' decisions on whether they can take a promotion. Maria Miller, MP, Chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee in the House of Commons, feels that a solution could be the creation of a decent period of well-paid paternal leave. Those young men who do it find that it is life changing. The provision of shared parental leave is causing a culture shift. Those employers who sign up to shared parental leave will reap the rewards.
Sarah also state that she wants managers to tackle the possibility of flexible working in all roles, so that they create the right job for the right person. Flexible working is not about doing favours for men or women, but it's a policy which, for the employer, is motivated by self-interest.
Dame Helena Morrissey represented the business voice, bringing with her an optimistic message rather than one of complacency and she believes that we are increasingly moving in the right direction.
Employers realise that in order to attract the best person they need to be more transparent. By March 30th 2018 all companies will have to publish their gender pay gap. Companies are finding that as we move towards the publication deadline things are becoming quite fraught.
The government are encouraging companies to sign up to the Think, Act, Report campaign which shows individual companies commitment to gender equality in the workplace. Those who subscribe to it pledge to:
Think: identify any issues around gender equality
Act: take action to fix those issues
Report: on how your business ensures gender equality
Think, Act, Report is a voluntary initiative to help employers close gender pay gaps. It's a simple step-by-step framework that helps employers include gender equality in business planning and processes.
In a recent employee survey many said that they would evaluate the published information to help them apply to companies where the gender pay gap is smaller or to apply to companies where they were actively trying to reduce it.
Dame Helena referred to a tiny article in the Financial Times which was sited on page 20, (it took some finding), stating that many companies were sailing close to the wire in publishing their gender pay gaps. The publication of this information should not come as a surprise to companies as it has been known about for two years. Once the information is published we will probably find that managerial posts will be one of the worst offenders. Price Waterhouse Coopers has aggregated a 30% salary gap and a 50% bonus gap.
Industry has a chicken and egg situation vis a vis the gender pay gap. An output based career is more about using your judgment rather than time spent working. Dame Helena related how she had had to overcome hostility at times. Business is lacking diversity, but we have to start somewhere to make improvements; those industries which fall short need to be given the opportunity to improve.
The good news is that younger women have closed the gap; however, the difference between older women and younger women is significant and this clearly reflects the type of work older women are doing. re needs to be a focus on societal change and so we need to address the social issue. When her fourth child was born, Helena and her husband decided that as Helena was earning more than her husband and her career had the greatest earning potential, that it would be sensible for Helena to continue to work and for her husband to take the greater share of the caring responsibilities.
Helena said that the narrative of the publication of the gender pay gap data is going to be really important and she concluded by saying that feminism should mean equality of opportunity based on talent and ambition.
Gillian Keegan was the last of our panel to speak. As a Conservative Member of Parliament her background is unusual, in that she comes from Liverpool where Tories are few and far between! She left school at 16 to pursue an apprenticeship in engineering, from there she had a career in business, became a Councillor and was elected MP for Chichester in June. She is involved with the Fawcett Society, 'Ask her to stand' and other political campaigns to encourage women to take their place on the green benches.
When it comes to the issue of the gender pay gap, Gillian noted that it was interesting to see that sales and retail was the sector with the lowest gap, owing to the fact that it is a sector driven by results, rather than bonuses. Gillian commented that many confuse the Gender Pay Gap and the Equal Pay issues, and she stressed that they are totally separate entities. The Gender Pay Gap comes about because women often have career breaks and have other responsibilities which prevent them from being able to work late or jump on a plane at the last minute.
Culturally, shared parental leave is about whether society accepts it. What it really needs is a number of high profile role models to take it. There is currently a culture of judgement in taking shared parental leave.
Another issue is paternity pay which is only offered at statutory levels rather than being topped up by employers. Childcare and childcare costs also contribute to decisions regarding work and we need to look at policy and what can be done, particularly when it comes to employment flexibility.
In order to get higher pay you need to be given a promotion. You need to go above the norm to get promoted. This is difficult when you have other responsibilities and your ability to grab other opportunities is curtailed.
The floor was opened to questions ranging from whether HR should take responsibility for allowing the gender pay gap which raised the concern that women may not be as assertive as men when asking for a pay rise. Helena said that Sir Philip Hampton had got himself into trouble by saying that women let pay gap happen, and that he had 'never, ever had a woman ask for a pay rise'. Helena continued that women should be valued no matter how loud they shouted. She then recounted that a man was paid one and a half times as much as a co-head who was a woman. It was a battle to get both paid the same amount. We need a culture where everyone is equally valued.
Ellen said that there was interesting data on how men and women ask for bonuses which showed that they both asked for the same, but men are better at negotiation.
The next question brought about a discussion on the merits of employers offering childcare which is something more City firms are providing. This is a move in the right direction however, places are limited and oversubscribed. Ellen believes that employers ought to provide assistance with childcare because the State doesn't. The back-up care which City firms are offering is very welcome, however, parents in the UK pay too much for childcare and employers need to have a role in helping parents with these costs in order to keep their staff. It was pointed out that this would impact small and medium sized businesses as they have different challenges to the big firms. The Federation of Small Businesses are looking into the possibility of whether maternity insurance is viable.
In France childcare is massively subsidised but their tax rates are significantly higher than outs. The average UK household will spend 25% of their income on childcare. It is very expensive and it is not surprising therefore that people drop out of the labour market. The Government should subsidise childcare as the UK is the most expensive for childcare, bar Switzerland.
Finally, someone asked how the panel suggests we push for a softer cultural change to encourage men to take shared parental leave. It was noted that in the City, that companies like PWC, Barclays and DWF are actively marketing shared parental leave to their employees. WE need to feel that the employer wants you to take it. Men are under the impression that shared parental leave will affect their career prospects.
Each of the panel summed up how they believe progress can be made in this area. Ellen said that childcare is fundamental because it enables parents to work and it has been shown that children who benefit from this have improved social mobility. Universal free childcare should be offered up until 12 or 14 years of age (when children are able to look after themselves).
Sarah said that we should remember that time is a currency as valuable as money. We should have a gender-neutral approach to employment. We need to offer balance, flexible working and tailored jobs to suit employees.
Helena said that we need to rethink the meaning of work. Most of us are still working the way our parents did. We need to accelerate the thinking that work is an activity rather than a place.
Gillian said that we need to examine the future of work; the way we see work will change. The culture needs to give permission for us to work in different ways. The culture is set by role models and if we could do that more we would cross-over to additional skills and make us more productive. We would all enjoy work more and flexibility would suit us better with work becoming a more positive journey.
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Libya crisis talks held in London as economy 'nears collapse'
Prime minister Fayez al-Sarraj meets John Kerry and Boris Johnson against background of civil war and economic ruin
Chris Stephen in Tunis
Mon 31 Oct 2016 04.39 EDT Last modified on Wed 20 Sep 2017 12.47 EDT
Fayez al-Sarraj will be urged to enact drastic reforms. Photograph: Mohamed Messara/EPA
John Kerry and Boris Johnson are hosting crisis talks with Libya's leaders in London in an attempt to ward off the collapse of the country's war-torn economy.
The World Bank has said Libya's economy is near collapse as the civil war worsens and bank reserves plummet.
In a US-led initiative, the US secretary of state and UK foreign secretary, joined by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, planned to urge Libya's embattled prime minister, Fayez al-Sarraj, to enact drastic reforms.
Libya's economy has atrophied and with oil exports down, the bulk of the 6 million-strong population depends on fast-depleting foreign reserves.
One western official said Sarraj would be urged to mend fences with the Central Bank of Libya governor, Saddek al-Kabir, who has accused the prime minister of failing to formulate an economic policy. "It is making clear the severity of the situation and the need to act," the official said.
But some fear the window for remedial action may be closing. Six months after arriving in Tripoli, Sarraj's Government of National Accord (GNA), appointed by a UN-chaired commission, has failed to win over the population.
Sarraj's administration is one of three vying for power. In Tripoli, he is facing off against the self-declared National Salvation government, which captured the Rixos government complex in an attempted coup two weeks ago.
A third government operates through the elected parliament in the eastern city of Tobruk. Forces there, led by the controversial general Khalifa Haftar, last month seized the country's key oil ports, and while oil exports have since doubled, it has left Tobruk controlling the bulk of the industry.
Last week, London defence analyst Jane's reported that Tobruk's hand had been strengthened after its key ally, the United Arab Emirates, opened an airbase to support ground troops in eastern Libya.
With the GNA unable to form a security force of its own, Tripoli is at the mercy of warring militias, with murders, kidnappings and firefights a daily occurrence.
The GNA's single success has been an ongoing offensive by allied militias, backed by US airstrikes, which has destroyed the bulk of Islamic State forces at their main base in Sirte.
But the government's lack of authority has resulted in a surge in migrant smuggling, while the capital is facing power cuts and inflation, with cash shortages provoking riots at the few banks still open.
Nadia Ramadan, a Tripoli resident, said: "Life is getting harder all the time. We are literally hearing loud shootings almost every night, there is no money and food inflation."
US officials are conscious of the effect Libya's chaos may have on the closely contested presidential election, with Hillary Clinton, as the former secretary of state, having overseen America's 2011 Libya bombing intervention that toppled Muammar Gaddafi.
Barack Obama said in April that failure to follow up intervention with support for Libya's fledgling democracy was the worst mistake of his presidency, and the administration hopes to show that some progress is being made.
America's Libya envoy, Jonathan Winer, summoned the spirit of Benjamin Franklin by urging Libyans to unite, tweeting:
But some fear that with power contested by three rival governments, and a fast-disintegrating administration, economic reform may prove impossible.
"Several measures must be taken simultaneously, a high level of coordination is required, but confidence in the banking system has evaporated," said Jalel Harchaoui, a Libya analyst at the University of Paris.

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Over the past year, I have decided to focus on learning more about NASCAR and building relationships within the "industry". There is a convergence of the "old or traditional" and the "new" happening with the media being the new and the "drivers and their families" being the old/traditional.
At the Bank of America 500 week at Lowes Motor Speedway (Concord, NC). I worked as a "concierge" supporting the corporate sales group for the week of pole night, the Busch race and the Bank of America 500 over a 3 day period. Working on the corporate suite level, I had a chance to mix and mingle with companies such as Bank of America, 3M, Anheuser-Busch. I also got to see Dale, Jr. and was able to meet and get to know the "Wallace Family" of Rusty and Kenny.
On two of my nights, I was teamed up with someone who worked in the ticket area of Las Vegas Speedway. I also discovered that some of the managers of the food service company (Levy) actually travel to NASCAR circuit to serve the tracks owned by Bruton Smith, who owns Lowes Motor Speedway.
On the technology side, I was able to meet a person at track-scan (www.track-scan.com) which supplies the radio devices to let fans listen to conversations between the drivers and their race crews.
This is an interesting adventure for me, as I am also working with Leilani Munter (wss.leilanimunter.com) who is an up and coming female driver on the NASCAR circuit to help find her a sponsor. Learning about race teams and independent racers such as Leilani is also an interesting adventure. The role of women in NASCAR is also something I will be learning about first hand.
I look forward to writing more about this experience.
In April 2005, I picked up the Wall Street Journal to read about Sumner Redstone, Owner of Viacom (CBS, MTV, Paramount, Simon and Schuster and a major radio group) which detailed the plan to spin the company off into two distinct companies in order to increase shareholder value and position these companies for the future. One company was to become the "new Viacom" and the other would become CBS. The new Viacom was expected to be the fast growing part and CBS the traditional broadcast part.
I was fascinated by this and actually contacted Tom as I saw this as the ultimate area to really combine the new Web 2.0 and what I consider "eWarrior" company. Onvergence of two areas that I saw as significant, mobile computing and building an audience (or a network) on the web. Also what fascinated me was the idea of the future of digital and high definition. As I dug deeper and I found really the imprint of Tom Freston on the company.
Now for my reminscence. I met Tom early in ny career at The Movie Channel. Although, I was relatively young (24 years old), I had already worked for 4 years in college radio and sports broadcasting and had 2 years under my belt at NBC's flagship radio stations NBC AM and WYNY FM. In addtion, I had already had about 2 years of experience at HBO (I was about the 250th and one of the youngest employees) and had worked both in marketing and finance where I had a chance to work and read the corporate business plands an interact with senior executives, so I had a pretty good vision of the early "pay televion" marketplace.
Tom and I would have lunch on a regular basis (one of my memories is at the famous Cafe 1 2 3 (un, deux, troix), an intimate Frence cafe style restaurant. We both enjoyed brainstorming and discussing the industry and where it was going. Althought I did not really recognize it at the time, we connected because we were both passionate about the business and the combination of the creative aspects. It was an exciting time. The Movie Channel had about a dozen employees specifically asssigned to run the channel. So some days my job would be to track movies so we could amortize their costs properly as we played them on air or working with the programming and promotions group coming up with creative contest and promotional ideas.
Tom was right there in the thick of things...I left to go back to HBO in 1983 when the major partner American Express pulled out. Tom and a few people stayed on. He helped to oversee some of the major changes in cable and broadcasting. MTV, Nickelodeon and The Movie Channel have now grown worldwide to over 125 different channels in places like Europe, South America and even China. Nickelodeon exploded when the company decided to move heavily into animation and developed cartoons like Beavis and Butthead, Spongebob, Dora the Explorer. Licensing revenues exploded and wehn then Viacom bought Paramount, so now these characters, such as Johnny Neutron could be in full lenght movies. Licensing is so pervasive for the products I even bought a bag of carrots and hit was a "spongebob" brand.
Tom was there in the thick of things. He also was very generous and loyal having many of the people I worked with early in my career such as Judy McGrath (Chairman of MTV) and Herb Scannell (former head of Nickelodeon) move up the ranks with him.
Well Tom when Viacom went public at the beginning of the year, Tom was named Chairman and he was leading a very visible "public company". Every move was scrutinized and written about as the new Viacom and MTV were looking to do deals to postion them for the future and protect the "franschise.
Well, I am not sure what the catalyst for the early exit was, but Sumner Redstone fired his star movie actor, Tom Cruise from Paramount in a very visible and suddent way in late August. He then fired the heart and soul of Viacom, Tom Freston.
Could it be that Sumner Redstones ego got the best of him when his "octagenarian" counterpart Rupert Murdoch was able to acquire MySpace.com...perhaps ego may have played a part. It looks like the new Viacom will become more like Microsoft, acquiring companies that are more of technology driven Web 2.0 firms in areas such as social netowrking, and online/personaized content.
I wish Tom Freston well and can't way to see his second "quarter" century.
For the past year, I really have been interested in the power of being interconnected and how what we do can influence others.
I was visiting our local library and they had a table with a few books for sale. One of the books was on Michael Eisner of Disney and the other was about Michael Ovitz.
As much as I was familiar with Michael Ovitz as an "agent". I picked up the book "Ovitz" - By Robert Slater (McGraw Hill) to learn more about how he came be become one of the most powerful forces in Hollywood.
This book resonated with me on many levels. It is about taking risks, overcoming seemingly insurmountable hurdles (not taking no for an answer), empowering others to reach for more than they thought possible. It also can be distilled into some basic facts that are the building blocks of my other background in CRM or customer relationship management - making the sales by focusing on benefits to the other party and completely keeping the customer(in this case actors, directors, screenwriters, movie moguls) by asking "How can I help you?" or by "showering gifts" upon them they they will deam valuable.
Ovitz had a vision and a plan. He early on did not try to power his way to the top by buying people off. He powered his way tot the tip by an equal partnership with 5 other agents from William Morris who could complement his skills and provide some level of a client base. He had been a "natural" leader by providing an uncommon vision and then working harder than the others to become the "leader".
He empowered people to think beyond of what they could accomplish on their own. He did this by buiding relationships and being meticulous. He also worked on setting up systems including redundant systems to manage the work flow so he could be out of the office, but still maintain levels of control.
He is tenacious on getting deals done and providing the "chemistry" for some of the most successful movies and television shows of our time. Rob Reiner, Sidney Pollack, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Bill Murray, Sean Connery became some of his early clients. He was able to reignite careers or provide more spark to some of those careers who needed a 2nd act such as Paul Newman and Sean Connery.
I have found this biography to be surprising, inspirational and intelligent on so many levels. Turns out to be great read.
Once in a while along comes a talent for producing movies. Wendy Finerman is one of those talents to be able to put together a dream team to direct the movie, do the costuming and play the lead roles.
How can you get any better than Meryl Streep using all of your acting talents to make Miranda a realistic character and avoid turning the movie into a cartoon. The street scenes, office mania, dialog are also incredibly realistic and believable at some level. I was missing New York and remembering back to my early career at HBO and The Movie Channel.
Well, here it is again. There were about 10 of us that helped to put together the Movie Channel, I was one and a young women from Wharton was doing some analysis of Movie acquisitions across the hall. She was smart and analytical and generally very nice to be around. It turned out that young woman was Wendy Finerman.
It is very amazing to fast foreward to day to realize how much she has grown up in the movie industry, survived and prospered. One day I would love to catch up with her and here about her journey.
It also lets me know that we had some amazing people back then including the founder of MTV, the current chairman of Viacom, the CEO of MTV, former President of Nickelodeon among those 10 people.
Well, I am still on my journey and enjoying the prosperity of my old colleagues.
Business Week just featured and article about the concept of media company's buying up websites and editorial content. Robert Pittman and their private equity firm have invested in an eNewsletter/website called www.dailycandy.com. There are specific on-line editions in 10 cities from New York, LA, Miami and next is Atlanta.
This eNewsletter and website allow for new trends in fashion, restaurants, entertainment to be marketed to a very valued target audience, mostly women 18-34 with income and spending power.
Business weeks says that this webzine may be worth as much as $100 million dollars.
The trick to the valuation is to have a very professional staff and approach including a professional editorial team and advertising sales team. The rate card for advertising in Daily Candy goes from a few thousand dollars per ad to the thirty thousand plus per city edition. DailyCandy claims more than one million subscribers.
For the last few years, I have been thinking about my early career in media at WNBC Radio, WYNY-FM radio, Home Box Office/Cinemax, The Movie Channel/MTV and realized how interesting that time was and how fortunate I was to be working in that industry.
Some of the people I worked with early in my are some of the most influential people in media today and over the past twenty five years. This blog is a way to capture some of those stories from the "old days" or the "age of innocence" when we were creating and inventing the early days of cable television.
From 1977 through today, I have been fortunate to have worked with Robert Pittman (Creator of MTV and former COO of AOL), Tom Freston (Chairman, Viacom), Judy McGrath (CEO, MTV Networks), Jeff Bewkes (CEO, Time-Warner), Herb Scannel, (President, MTV Networks), Brown Johnson (VP Programming, Nick Jr., Bill Roedy, President, MTV International and many others.
During those early years I had the opportunity to be at Bruce Springteen's first concert at Madison Square Garden and presented him with an WNBC satin baseball jacket, was one of a few dozen people at "Cousin Brucies" last radio show at WNBC.
I was also the "N-Car" driver in the summer of 1978 in which over 2 million people had "WNBC is going to make me rich" bumber stickers on their car. That summer I gave away trips to London, Kawasaki JetSkis.
At HBO, we worked hard and played hard. I was responsible for the HBO Premium Incentive program that included all the coffee mugs, beer steins, t-shirts, tennis shirts, directors chairs and other items that had the HBO logo on them.
We had our holiday parties at Radio City Music Hall and the Museum of Natural History under the Great Whale.


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American Heathens
Joshua Paddison (Author)
In the 19th-century debate over whether the United States should be an explicitly Christian nation, California emerged as a central battleground. Racial groups that were perceived as godless and uncivilized were excluded from suffrage, and evangelism among Indians and the Chinese was seen as a politically incendiary act. Joshua Paddison sheds light on Reconstruction's impact on Indians and Asian Americans by illustrating how marginalized groups fought for a political voice, refuting racist assumptions with their lives, words, and faith. Reconstruction, he argues, was not merely a remaking of the South, but rather a multiracial and multiregional process of reimagining the nation.
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Discrimination & Race Relations
Joshua Paddison is an American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow in the American Studies Program and the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University.
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Gold-i, world leader in trading systems integration, is delighted to announce its sponsorship of the annual Great Strides 65 Challenge – a 65km (40 mile) trek through the Surrey countryside to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.
The multi-award winning Guildford-based company has donated £1,500 to Great Strides 65 and Business Development Manager, Chris Rowe, will be actively involved in the event. He will be helping to manage the route throughout the duration of the event.
The Great Strides 65 Challenge is taking place on Saturday 6 June. Teams of four to six people will cover a circular 40 mile route, starting from the Hampton Estate in Seale at 7am and taking in scenic locations such as the North Downs Way, the Devil's punchbowl and St Martha's Hill.
The organisers are looking for more teams to enter and are also appealing to the Surrey-based business community to provide additional support.
Cystic fibrosis is a life-shortening genetic condition which causes the internal organs, especially the lungs and digestive system, to become clogged with thick sticky mucus, resulting in chronic infections and inflammation of the lungs.
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The Alien Masterclass – Part 3: Alien 3 (1992)
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In this very special episode in our "Movies About Making Movies" month, Kyle and Trevor review Jon Schepp's terrific documentary about the Tim Burton Superman film that never was, The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened (2015)! Comprised of interviews with the producers and pre-production that tirelessly worked on Superman Lives prior to it's abrupt…
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Antoine Martinet (22 April 1776 - 6 May 1839) was a Savoyard churchman who served between 1828 and 1839 as Archbishop of Chambéry.

Biography

Early years
Antoine Martinet was born into an impoverished family in Beaufortain which at that time was administered as part of Queige.   He proved a scholarly child:  he undertook religious studies locally and was then was sent on to the "Collège royal" (as it was known at that time) in Chambéry.   After three years of instruction he won the institution's first prize in Rhetoric. The judgment was also made (and repeated) that a dissertation which he produced on Philosophy was of a quality to be expected from a professor rather than from a pupil.   Picked out for ecclesiastical advancement by Archbishop Joseph de Montfalcon du Cengle, he was then transferred to the great seminary at Moûtiers where he studied for two years.

Martinet was ordained a priest on 19 September 1789, and then for six months given charge over the little parish of Saint-Paul, a short distance to the north of Chambéry.   He then returned to the side of the archbishop, to whom he became, in the words of at least two sources, [personal] secretary, theologian and confidant.   He combined these duties with a professorship in Theology and the position of "préfet" at the important college in Moûtiers where he introduced several improvements.

Under occupation
Overnight on 21/22 September 1792, without any formal declaration of war, the duchy was militarily occupied by French revolutionary troops, under the command of Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac:  it was subsequently annexed by republican France, formally through a decree dated 27 November 1792, while Sardinian troops retreated towards the higher mountains. This was the start of a (not quite unbroken) twenty-three year period of military occupation. In 1793, on behalf of the professors at the college, Antoine Martinet appeared before the new municipal authorities to refuse to deliver the "civil sermon" which was, he said, contrary to conscience.    This meant, among other things, that along with a majority of Savoyard churchmen he refused to swear support for the so-called Civil Constitution of the Clergy.   A period of confused turmoil ensued during which time five battalions of volunteer militiamen were raised by the towns and villages of Savoy.   On 1 March 1793 Antoine Martinet accompanied the archbishop to Turin in Piedmont, the part of the duchy on the south side of The Alps, which was not at this stage occupied by French forces.   In August 1793 Moûtiers and almost the whole of the surrounding province were liberated by the Piedmontese army. Archbishop de Montfalcon hurried back to make a start on healing the wounds inflicted on his flock by the revolution. He was, as ever, accompanied by Father Martinet. The local clergy and the congregations were delighted and thrilled by the return of their church leaders.   The archbishop was no longer a young man, however. Whether through grief at the human and social impact of recent events, as some sources assert, or through a combination of illness and exhaustion, he died at some point between 20 and 22 September 1793.  When Antoine Martinet returned to Turin towards the end of the 1793, before the route over the mountains was blocked by winter snows, he travelled alone.

In Savoy the triumph of the Piedmontese army was short-lived: French revolutionary reinforcements arrived from the west: the Piedmontese troops were forced into rapid retreat. There was little sympathy for revolutionary objectives among the Savoyards, and the impact of the fighting on the civilian populations and their local clergy became savage and brutal. Meanwhile, during the winter of 1793/94 in Piedmont, Father Martinet felt terrible over the situation he had left behind him following the death of his mentor-companion, the archbishop. He now succeeded in obtaining from the church authorities the title of pro-vicar general, along with appropriate powers and duties, which once the route through the mountains reopened in 1794, enabled him to return home to the Tarentaise Valley at the head of a small group of missionary priests, able to take on pastoral and practical tasks traditionally undertaken by the church, that had in large measure been left undone since the French invasion of 1792. These activities were naturally opposed by the occupation forces which were becoming progressively more organised, but Martinet was nevertheless able to build up and then to structure a missionary network of dedicated individuals, headed up by himself. Increasingly he was now sought out by the French. At one point he spent eight days hiding in a (presumably unfired) glass oven in the remote Forest of Doucy.   After the Coup of 18 Fructidor (actually early September 1797) the persecution intensified. Martinet stayed for another four months, hiding sometimes in the gaps under the terraces of the vineyards, and sometimes in the attic of the semi-ruined Château de Conflans. During daylight hours he had to remain concealed, but he would emerge after dark in order to visit the sick, administer the sacraments and celebrate the holy mysteries.    Every day the danger from the occupying forces became more pressing, and after a few months Martinet was persuaded by friends to abandon his mission in order to eliminate the risks not just to himself, but also to every individual which whom he came into contact. He now retreated back over the mountains to Turin while continuing to provide advice and recommendations to the less high-profile activist churchmen remaining in occupied Savoy.   The timelines become a little uncertain, but he was certainly settled back in Turin by 1800.

Exile
Keen to use his enforced exile usefully, he accepted an appointment to educate, among others, a member of a Turin aristocratic family, the Marquis of Cambriano Turinetti.   As time - and the war - wore on he also attended increasingly to his own education, following courses at the university, emerging eventually with a degree in canon law.

It was only towards the end of 1812, as the cream of the French army met with its Moscow nemesis, that Antoine Martinet felt able to return once more across the Alps to Savoy. This time he would stay. He had barely arrived when Bishop de Solle of Chambéry invited him to deliver the Advent sermon in the cathedral.  Directly after that Martinet was given responsibility for the curacy of Maché, an inner suburban parish in Chambéry.

The ecclesiastical career ladder in post-war Savoy
In 1816 he resumed his teaching work at Moûtiers College, becoming a Theology teacher there the next year. Then, in 1819, he was recalled back to Chambéry by Bishop de Solle, joining the Cathedral chapter as a "Chanoine ordinaire". He was installed by the bishop as head of the Chambéry ecclesiastical court and given responsibility for Christian schools in the diocese.  Sources differ as to whether it was in 1821 or 1822 that he was appointed diocesan vicar general.

There had been no Archbishop of Tarentaise since the death of Joseph de Montfalcon in 1793, and it might have been concluded, from the alternative administrative boundaries and structures created during and after the annexation by France, that the diocese was defunct. It had, however, been one of the oldest of the Gallic dioceses, and in 1825 the new king announced his decision to reinstate the Diocese of Tarentaise. Up till 1793 the diocese had been ruled by 72 bishops and archbishops. Two had later become popes. On 19 March 1826 Antoine Martinet was installed as the seventy-third Bishop of Tarentaise.   Once installed he lost no time in arranging for the rebuilding of the cathedral, reversing the vandalism inflicted by the revolution.   The reconstruction lasted for four years:  sources note that the surrounding municipalities and the clergy were generous with their contributions.

Archbishop
By the time the repairs on the cathedral at Moûtiers had been completed, Father Martinet had moved on again. The death of Archbishop Bigex in February 1827 had created a vacancy at the head of the diocese of Chambéry which by this time (since 1817) had become an archdiocese, covering a wider area that encompassed Annecy, Tarentaise (Moûtiers) and Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, along with Chambéry itself.   Martinet was selected for the post 20 December 1827 and installed in succession to Bigex on the Feast of Quasimodo in 1828.

By this time cyclical factors were softening the impact of post-war austerity, and Antoine Martinet's eleven year incumbency as archbishop is remembered for being exceptionally active. The archdiocese was a rural one, containing at that time just 168 parishes. Yet during those eleven years Martinet oversaw the construction of 40 new churches, while a further 19 benefitted from significant repair programmes. 22 presbyteries were rebuilt and all the others, to a lesser or greater extent, repaired. Nor was Martinet's period in office restricted to an ecclesiastical construction boom. He undertook numerous works of piety and charity, set up various missionary projects and engaged energetically on the pastoral front. There were also new parishes established along with a large number of church schools.

During his last few years Antoine Martinet was affected by chronic illness, though he refused to let this interfere with his work. Then at the start of 1839 a marked deterioration in his condition set in with a period of cruel insomnia. He suffered greatly during his final three months. Then, during the night of 10/11 April 1839, he suffered much torment at the end of which he had come to terms with the imminence of his "final journey". In the morning his spirit was much calmer and he appeared to be much better in himself. He died at Chambéry a few days later, at around half past seven on the morning of 6 May 1839, fully reconciled to his situation.

He had chosen for his burial location the little Calvary Chapel on the western slope of the Lémenc Hill to the north of the town. Martinet had himself overseen the chapel's reconstruction, to replace the previous building which had been destroyed when French troops had arrived back in 1792. Martinet's burial took place on 8 May 1839 in the presence of the municipal councillors and officers, of the clergy, and of a large crowd that stretched out along the route to the chapel. A more elaborate memorial service was held at the cathedral on 12 June 1839. A heartfelt and lengthy tribute was delivered by the Abbé Rendu.

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Archbishops of Chambéry
19th-century French Roman Catholic bishops
1776 births
1839 deaths

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DurationNovember 22, 2015 - December 5, 2015
artworksHomonymes IV, 2015
Golden Memories (Tarpaulin), 2015
Galerie Balice Hertling is very pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Isabelle Cornaro, featuring a new body of wall-based cast reliefs and a floor-based intervention. The show highlights Cornaro's abiding interest in objects that answer the calls of both form and formlessness, as well as her longstanding curiosity about how material things are classified according to language- and image-based systems. In this sense her subjects are the aesthetic function itself––that is, the impulse to generate meaning through formal comparisons of similarity and difference––and the permeable, ever-shifting boundary between what is familiar and what is not.
The five reliefs that provide a major focal point in this exhibition are the latest in an ongoing series of works, entitled Homonymes, in which Cornaro uses various materials (here Acrystal, a type of Hydrocal cement) to cast accumulations of pre-existing objects as a single form. Unlike previous Homonyme reliefs the new examples are characterized by their overall triangular shape, which lends them a sharply identifiable silhouette when viewed from afar. They deliver an altogether different emotional charge, however, as the viewer approaches and their basic geometry reveals itself to be an envelope for a cascade of visually and culturally fraught forms that include disembodied fragments of figurines and other statuary; trinkets, coins, jewelry, and bits of decoration; miniature architectural elements; and discarded pieces of material whose original function is unclear.
Each of the Homonymes in this exhibition has been cast from the same mold. Their forms are therefore more or less identical, though their pigmentation subtly diffentiates them (three are black and two are dark grey). Cornaro therefore sets up a new system of relation: the repetition of forms acts like the sculptural equivalent of white noise, cancelling out any particular histories associated with the found objects from which they are made, and rendering mute those narratives external to the exhibition and the artworks themselves. As a result, the pathos of prior ownership and foregone use, like the issue of taste, can be seen as generalized conditions that haunt every object in a civilization like our own, in which a constant urge for forward progress also generates the persistent compulsion to leave things behind. History, from this point of view, is the linear accumulation of experience only inasmuch as it is also a ceaseless act of forgetting.
The Homonymes embody a contemporary version of a longstanding paradox: the closer we get to the objects that surround us, the more fully we understand their origins and purposes, the more abstract, formless, and even strange they appear to be. This is akin to the kind of perceptual shift that takes place in cinema when a wide angle shot gives way to a close-up. (Indeed, a direct link can be established between the Homonymes and Cornaro's film works that also play an important role in her practice.) That they also recall the textures of 16th and 17th century grottoes is no accident, given that the exaggerated forms which characterize those Mannerist environments only emerged after artists had already developed newly precise methods of sculptural reproduction––in effect, being able to copy the real initiated a movement away from the real. Similarly, the specificity of the forms in the Homonymes, rendered using a fluid material that later solidifies, portends the necessary return to a state of formlessness that all things, living and inanimate, must eventually undergo.
This backdrop of dissolution assumes the spotlight in the floor-based installation that provides the exhibition with its weightless center of gravity. Consisting of folded and creased sheets of plastic covered in luminous, particulate fields of spray-paint, the work is provocatively shapeless, an exercise in anti-form. Since the plastic is a kind of film, Cornaro's moving image work once again comes to mind, but it is in fact a byproduct from the making of wall paintings, yet another facet of her practice: the plastic sheets are originally used to mask off and protect sections of the exhibition spaces in which these site-specific works are installed. An inadvertent, aleatory composition is created when paint that exceeds the intended limits of the wall painting lands on the plastic, which in turn provides a record of what was not intended to be included in the work itself. By repurposing the plastic here, Cornaro grants new life to the remains of a process whose first iteration has ended, reminding us that objects often express their purposes only after they have been cast aside.
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South African artist Mbongeni Buthelezi recycles plastic litter, adds some heat and melts it all on to his canvas to create some of the most audacious pieces of art. A regular exhibitor on the local and international art scenes for almost 20 years, he has been hailed as one of the country's most innovative artists. brandsouthafrica.com
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Cape Farewell
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A San Francisco-based artist collective focused on strengthening the intersections between individual practicing artists and the arts community in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. oneplusoneplustwo.com
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Patricia Sweetow Gallery
Established San Francisco Bay Area art gallery representing some of the best artists to be found in California. Always cutting edge, they are currently located in Oakland. patriciasweetowgallery.com
Creek Colleges are experimental schools that bridge art and environmental conservation. We offer a range of free art courses to local community in exchange for aid in the restoration of watersheds suffering from environmental degradation. Our goal is to create an experiential learning environment that combines art and stewardship with a focus on accessibility and inclusivity. creekcolleges.com
Tomorrow Pictures
Stories that matter. tomorrowpictures.com
Marcia Wood Gallery
Marcia Wood Gallery represents contemporary artists of exceptional merit who range the spectrum from ground breaking young artists with emerging careers to internationally established masters. The criteria for inclusion in the gallery program is an artist's rigorous commitment to contributing compelling work that is pertinent and critical in today's contemporary art arena. marciawoodgallery.com
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Interested in the function of rapid evolution in a moment of profound global change. Connecting the speed of change today with the speed of change in the geologic history of the planet. These issues touch on conservation, mediating climate change, technology, rapid species loss, adaption, the singularity, solastalgia, living through the anthropocene and the experience of love and loss in a human life. aliciaescott.com
The Green Theater
Sharing knowledge about Green Theatre, ecological theatre, ecotheatre, sustainable theatre ,environmental theatre, and recycled theatre. thegreentheater.org
1000 Gestalten
The 1000 GESTALTEN represent a society that has lost their feeling for the fact that a different way of life is possible. 1000gestalten.de
KD Hampton
As an artist of color, I have made a life long commitment to creating artwork that responds to the lives of my ancestors. My lens is anthropology and I study my own genealogy. I travel in my ancestors footsteps, I walk the roads where they lived, explored the plantations where they were enslaved, I am the storyteller. As their medium I provide a vehicle for my ancestor's spirits to transcend history and remain as historical memory. kdhampton.com
The West County Toxics Coalition (WCTC)
A nonprofit, 501(c)(3), multi-racial membership organization founded in 1986 to empower low and moderate-income residents to exercise greater control over environmental problems that impact their quality of life in County Costa County, particularly West Contra Costa County (West County), in Northern California. westcountytoxicscoalition.org
Berkeley Civic Arts Program
The Civic Arts Program administers and develops projects which accomplish the mission of the Civic Arts Commission, which advises the City Council on all matters affecting the beauty and culture of the city. cityofberkeley.info


Short version: Online streaming? Heard of Cerevo? Don't bother. There are lots of problems with every piece of kit they make. Invest in other live streaming products.
The LiveShell came out in 2011 It's a handy mobile-phone sized all-in-one live video streaming box. It's light, portable, and battery powered. It takes HDMI Video In, up to 576i. It has a separate Audio Line In source, and also the option for a break-out cable so you can also use Composite Video In if required.
It has an ethernet socket for wired network connections, and also a USB port for a WiFi dongle.
Personally, the main benefit of the LiveShell is that it runs off replaceable AA batteries. If you use Eneloop (Sanyo) rechargeable batteries, it can stream non-stop for over 3 hours. I can confirm this is true, as I streamed a car journey from London to Edinburgh non-stop and only had to change the batteries once. And when the batteries are getting low, the whole LCD screen flashes as a warning that you have less than a few minutes of power left. Handy.
The LiveShell settings are also available via a web interface they call SHELL. So you can easily use your phone and get access to bit rates, audio levels, etc. Also handy.
However, the video stream is h263. If you don't know what h263 is, it just means the way the video is squished down and put together in order to be sent across the internet. As time goes on, a lot of providers are no longer supporting h263 (YouTube for example) because it's no longer the most efficient way of doing so. As of 2015 it's a defunct codec. Not so handy.
And unfortunately, this isn't something they can fix with software or a firmware update. The physical microchips and electronics inside are hard-coded for h263. Bummer.
Therefore, it's essentially now an expensive and dead piece of kit.
I then bought a LiveShell Pro. The Pro version officially handles up to 720p, has an additional 3.5mm Line In on the front of the box, and also has stereo phono sockets on the back. Therefore, including embedded audio via HDMI, that gives THREE independent audio sources that can be mixed on this device.
If you have a composite monitor, you can plug in a break-out cable into the AV OUT socket on the front, and keep an eye on what you are streaming without looking at your website stream.
The LiveShell Pro has an internal rechargeable battery, which will also run for approximately 3 hours. Unfortunately they've taken away the AA battery option, and added their own non-standard type of rechargeable battery. And it's only replaceable if you have a screwdriver to hand. This is in no way a quick fix. You can run it off mains power or recharge it using a Mini USB cable plugged into the back of the device, but it's such a shame they didn't go for the AA battery option.
You can also access all the settings via the SHELL web interface, the same way you can with the original LiveShell. Which is excellent if you use it remotely.
But. There's also a major problem with interference and noise. If you use a microphone plugged into the front 3.5mm socket, there is a constant hiss and buzz on that audio source. You can fade up and down the other audio sources via the web interface and this won't make a difference. It's specifically the front Line In socket. And I use this all the time.
This is a big problem for me. Obviously this noise is unacceptable for a broadcasting device. How on earth can anyone take you seriously with buzzing and crackling audio over your video?
And oddly, the crackling buzz goes away when you disconnect the USB charging cable. Plug it back in, and it comes back. In my opinion, it's therefore a build issue. Most probably, the internal circuits and electronic components are too close to the actual mic socket!
It's internal electronics have been badly designed.
Overall the LiveShell Pro is usable. Just don't use the front Mic In socket, and always be near a power outlet.
The LiveWedge was released in early 2015 and is another Cerevo streaming box. It's a more complicated piece of kit. It's also much more powerful. It can stream up to 1080p, and has FOUR HDMI inputs. You can cut, mix and wipe between the four sources, similar to a Vision Mixing desk in a live studio gallery.
One fantastic thing it also does is that it has built in up/down/cross converters. So any HDMI signal you put into it will be converted to whichever resolution you have set as the output. That means you can mix all sorts of different HDMI Input sources, but your output will always be, for example, 1080p.
It also has its own App, available on iOS. But you cannot access any of the LiveWedge features via a web interface like you can with all other LiveShell devices. Bummer (again).
You can display stills from an SD Card, but at time of writing it won't play video clips from SD. Out of the box it was only able to display JPG images, though a firmware update (Dec 2015) now also allows PNG files. You can also only load one image into the memory at any one time.
However, to access the card you need to physically remove it. It is NOT accessible via network. An SD Card is a good idea, but hasn't quite been explored in the way that users would probably want use it.
I should also point out that the SD Card is also the 4th Input. So if you have 4 HDMI sources connected you can only use the first 3, as Input 4 becomes the SD Card output.
The LiveWedge also has a Chromakey function. So you can use one source against a green or blue-screen and key through it to one of the other input sources. You can also key through stills from the SD Card, so you can create lower thirds, though that'd be a bit clunky and not the best way to do that. Overall, a good addition to the product.
The fact you cannot access any of the settings externally means you cannot remotely turn the stream on or off, or do any cuts or mixes without being on the same network and using the App. Don't get me wrong, it has physical buttons on the box you can press, but I want something I can control remotely.
But back to the LiveWedge… And. It Crashes. ALL THE TIME. The App crashes, and the box crashes. Over and over and over. Sometimes you have to physically pull out the power and reboot the whole thing before it'll start talking to the App again. Sometimes you have to restart the App for it to talk to the box. VERY Frustrating.
And when it crashes, it loses the image it was holding from the SD Card. So you need to load it up again after every crash. It also doesn't remember the current settings. So if you're on HDMI Input 2 when it crashes, it starts back up broadcasting BLACK, rather than putting HDMI Input 2 back on-air. It also forgets your output resolution.
It also has a major downfall where it displays all your WiFi settings on the front LCD screen, proudly telling everyone your WiFi password in clear text!
The LiveShell 2 is Cerevo's latest device (as of Dec 2015). It's essentially the same as the original LiveShell device, but updated to use h264 and officially accepts 720p. They also advertise it as using 5G as well as 2.4G wifi. But this is simply a different supplied USB dongle that plugs in the back. It's nothing built in, and nothing really to shout about.
Other than that, it doesn't do anything more.
There is one major flaw. The USB socket is directly next to the HDMI socket. And this means, yet again, interference. And not just audio this time.
I've tried 5 different HDMI sources and 3 different HDMI cables. All have this crackling.
This is what happens when you put a WiFi dongle directly next to an HDMI socket.
… with exactly the same problem.
I have found that if you move the wifi dongle away from the HDMI socket using a USB extension cable, then the issue goes away. Yet another clear indication that it's an internal electronics problem. Signals in close proximity causing issues.
So far Cerevo have yet to acknowledge a problem with either the LiveShell Pro or the LiveShell 2. But there's plenty of examples I can give of these issues.
The LiveShell was the original and perfect streaming product, though could only stream SD using a codec that went out of date rather quickly.
The LiveShell Pro solved the codec problem, but then Cerevo took away the replaceable AA battery option and introduced a non-standard rechargeable battery. They also somehow introduced a Line In audio noise issue.
The LiveShell 2 stayed on-track with the codec, upped the streaming resolution to HD and lost the Line In noise issue, but somehow became worse with an HDMI interference issue, and also completely removed the possibility of an interchangeable rechargeable battery..!
My advice is to stay away from these products. It doesn't seem like there's a lot of thought, logic or testing going into any Cerevo designs.
I urgently need to buy the cerevo batteries today. Where I can find them in London please?
The LiveShell Pro battery is a "18650". If you can find an electronics shop or a photography shop, they may just have one. It's a relatively standard sized battery that sell for between £4-7. I believe they're also used in Vaping devices, so perhaps one of those shops too.
Obviously the original Liveshell was battery powered via standard 3x AA batteries.
I'm unsure if the LiveShell 2 has a removable battery. I think it's a non-serviceable part.


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Robbie Bach Takes A Swing At The PSP
Microsoft's Robbie Bach has been rather quiet recently, something definitely not suiting him. It was expected that the president of the Entertainment & Devices Group would step up and fire on competitors once again.
This time, Bach decided to aim at Sony's PSP, which he presents as failure in most fields, if not all:
"The PSP is a reasonably successful product at the profit-and-loss level. But as a product concept, there are cautionary tales to learn from it. While it is good at producing audio, it's not a good music player because it doesn't have local storage (except for flash memory slots). You can't keep your music there […] you can only get the video under the Universal Media Disc format. That format hasn't been successful. On a game level, it has done well. But even there, it is mostly PlayStation 2 ports."
This attack may seem to lack a purpose. After all, Microsoft and Sony aren't actual competitors when it comes to PSP's market share. A strike from Nintendo, which does make a fortune with its DS handheld, might've made more sense. Then again, Nintendo is too busy raking in the money, so no picking on Sony's device for the time being.
However, Bach had a specific purpose in mind when it lashed out at the PSP: to further promote the Zune player. It goes like this: the Zune has none of the PSP's features, but it's very good at what its doing: playing music.
"When you do these devices, they can't be pretty good at a lot of things. They need to be great at what they do. Zune is a great music player. We have local storage, a marketplace, the social network. We didn't do video right out of the gate because you want to do those things in a high-quality way. Same thing in the gaming space. It is technically possible to do games on there. But you aren't going to see a broad gaming effort from us until we sort that through and have it figured out. I don't think of Zune like the PSP. The PSP is a game player that also does video and music. We think of Zune as a broad-based entertainment device."
Yes, as a broad-based entertainment device that mostly no one would buy it. It's a known fact that Zune utterly failed to grab a substatial market share, despite all of Microsoft's efforts. But hey, it's something to act like you're the bettter product when you're coming in last, isn't it?
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Q: Chosing a suitable table size for a Hash If I have a key set of 1000, what is a suitable size for my Hash table, and how is that determined?

A: It depends on the load factor (the "percent full" point where the table will increase its size and re-distribute its elements).  If you know you have exactly 1000 entries, and that number will never change, you can just set the load factor to 1.0 and the initial size to 1000 for maximum efficiency.  If you weren't sure of the exact size, you could leave the load factor at its default of 0.75 and set your initial size to 1334 (expected size/LF) for really good performance, at a cost of extra memory.
You can use the following constructor to set the load factor:
Hashtable(int initialCapacity, float loadFactor)

A: You need to factor in the hash function as well.
one rule of thumb suggests make the table size about double, so that there is room to expand, and hopefully keep the number of collisions small.
Another rule of thumb is to assume that  you are doing some sort of modulo related hashing, then round your table size up to the next largest prime number, and use that prime number as the modulo value.
What kind of things are you hashing?  More detail should generate better advice.

A: There's some discussion of these factors in the documentation for Hashtable

A: Let it grow. With this size, the automatic handling is fine. Other than that, 2 x size + 1 is a simple formula. Prime numbers are also kind of good, but as soon as your data set reaches a certain size, the hash implementation might decide to rehash and grow the table.
Your keys are driving the effectiveness and are hopefully distinct enough.
Bottom line: Ask the size question when you have problems such as size or slow performance, other than that: Do not worry!

A: Twice is good.
You don't have a big keyset.
Don't bother about difficult discussions about your HashTable implementation, and go for 2000.

A: I'd like to reiterate what https://stackoverflow.com/users/33229/wwwflickrcomphotosrene-germany said above.  1000 doesn't seem like a very big hash to me.  I've been using a lot of hashtables about that size in java without seeing much in the way of performance problems.  And I hardly ever muck about with the size or load factor.
If you've run a profiler on your code and determined that the hashtable is your problem, then by all means start tweaking.  Otherwise, I wouldn't assume you've got a problem until you're sure.
After all, in most code, the performance problem isn't where you think it is.  I try not to anticipate.